Subvocalization Essays

Alexia is a good reader who needs to focus more in order to increase her comprehension, retention, and speed in reading. During the last few months, she studied and learned about strategies for improving comprehension and retention in reading (i.e. previewing, predicting, skimming, guessing, paraphrasing), and about the 3 steps in the reading process and for fast reading (previewing, overviewing, and reading). She read several chapters from books such as “Haciendo Caras” by Gloria Anzaldua, “Legacy

Introduction In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century modernism gained great importance in fictive writing. Mentioning modernist writing, one of the first, most influential authors that should come to one’s mind is Virginia Woolf. The following work will take a closer look at her short story “The Mark on The Wall” as well as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” regarding gender roles and feminist perspective that is portrayed in these short stories. Both stories

How to Speed Read: Perfecting Your Speed Reading in 3 Simple Parts. Learning how to speed read is just as hard a task to accomplish as learning how to read in the first place. But then science tells us that we grasp very little to almost nothing of what we speed read; so, why would anyone want to learn this skill anyway? Well, the truth is, sometimes we just want to get through the morning newspaper or favorite magazine just a little bit faster. We may also want to skim through those large